Men have always been afraid that women could get along without them.

Where we choose to put our attention changes our brain, which in time can change how we see and interact with the world.

I did not write it [Coming of Age in Samoa] as a popular book, but only with the hope that it would be intelligible to those who might make the best use of its theme, that adolescence need not be the time of stress and strain which Western society made it; that growing up could be freer and easier and less complicated; and also that there were prices to pay for the very lack of complication I found in Samoa - less intensity, less individuality, less involvement with life.

Contentment can be bought at a price that one can not possibly pay.

We will be a better country when each religious group can trust its members to obey the dictates of their own religious faith without assistance from the legal structure of the country.

For art to be reality, the whole sensuous being must be caught up in the experience.

The atmosphere is the key symbol of global interdependence.